If you followed media coverage of new Kentucky football coach Will Stein's introductory news conference, you likely saw the animated response of Wildcats athletics director Mitch Barnhart to a question about whether UK is dedicating enough of its revenue share funding to the school's football players to ensure competitiveness in that sport.
"People have asked that question 19 different ways, from all the stuff that's been going on, and it's exhausting," Barnhart said on Dec. 3. "Enough. Enough about, ‘Have we got enough?' We've got enough. We're working at it just like everyone else is working at it. We're no different."
Respectfully, UK has no one to blame but itself for the questions over whether the level of UK's investment in its football players is sufficient for success in the pigskin-mad Southeastern Conference.
This school year is the first in which, by terms of the settlement of the House v. NCAA antitrust lawsuit, Division I schools can share as much as $20.5 million in revenue with their athletes.
Kentucky is among what seems to be the large majority of universities that have chosen not to be fully transparent in how they are distributing that funding.
UK has announced in which sports it is sharing revenue - baseball, men's basketball and football; softball, volleyball and women's basketball. Kentucky has not revealed, however, what percentage of its revenue share each sport is getting.
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UK has itself to blame for football questions Mitch Barnhart didn't like?
"People have asked that question 19 different ways, from all the stuff that's been going on, and it's exhausting," Barnhart said on Dec. 3. "Enough. Enough about, ‘Have we got enough?' We've got enough. We're working at it just like everyone else is working at it. We're no different."
Respectfully, UK has no one to blame but itself for the questions over whether the level of UK's investment in its football players is sufficient for success in the pigskin-mad Southeastern Conference.
This school year is the first in which, by terms of the settlement of the House v. NCAA antitrust lawsuit, Division I schools can share as much as $20.5 million in revenue with their athletes.
Kentucky is among what seems to be the large majority of universities that have chosen not to be fully transparent in how they are distributing that funding.
UK has announced in which sports it is sharing revenue - baseball, men's basketball and football; softball, volleyball and women's basketball. Kentucky has not revealed, however, what percentage of its revenue share each sport is getting.
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UK has itself to blame for football questions Mitch Barnhart didn't like?
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